Latvian composer U?is Prauli?? ' striking setting of the Mass has attracted considerable attention following a recording by The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, under Stephen Layton. (Baltic Exchange, Hyperion CDA67747) Scored for SATB unaccompanied and soloists and well within the reach of most choirs, it is by turn devotional, bold, intimate, intense and, ultimately, thrilling, from a choral tradition outside the more familiar Western forms. Ugis Praulins - Missa Rigensis by musicroom / Choeur SATTB

Written for the Serenade in the Cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral which takes place as night falls this work embodies the tranquility and serenity of night as portrayed in the text by Henry Longfellow. Part of the new Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series.